2014/925/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 16 December 2014 approving certain amended programmes for the eradication, control and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses for the year 2014 and amending Implementing Decision 2013/722/EU as regards the Union financial contribution for certain programmes approved by that Decision (notified under document C(2014) 9650)

The amended annual programme for the eradication and monitoring of bluetongue submitted by Portugal on 12 September 2014 is hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014.

The amended annual programme for the eradication of rabies submitted by Hungary on 23 April 2014 is hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014.

The amended annual programme for the control and monitoring of classical fever submitted by Latvia on 5 November 2014 is hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014.

The amended annual programme for the eradication of rabies submitted by Poland on 7 November 2014 is hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014.

‘2 The financial contribution by the Union to the Member States referred to in paragraph 1:’

‘3 By derogation to Article 3(2), when the costs of the tuberculin testing are not directly incurred by the Member State, the financial contribution by the Union shall be limited to 50 % of the real costs incurred by the Member State for the purchase of tuberculin.’

‘1 The programmes for the eradication and monitoring of bluetongue in domestic animals submitted by Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Finland are hereby approved for the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014.’

‘2 Only costs incurred in carrying out the annual or multiannual programmes referred to Articles 2 to 12 and paid before the submission of the final report by the Member State shall be eligible for co-financing by means of a financial contribution by the Union with the exception of costs referred to in Article 11(7).’

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.